Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Jews as Enemies of Jews

Jews as Enemies of Jews, who are they?
What Jew gains from being an enemy of other Jews? It is a good question, but
the answer is that anytime that a Jew does something to antagonize others,
Jewish or not, we have a problem. The Talmud teaches that the senior rabbi of
the generation, Rabbi Yochanan ben Zackai, was always careful to greet
everyone, Jew and gentile, when he walked down the street. This led to everyone
respecting him, and also respecting other Jews who followed his example, as
suggested by the rabbis.

The gemora[1]
teaches that “one should always respond softly, and establish peace with his
brethren and with his relatives and with all people, even a gentile in the
marketplace, so that he will be loved from on high (Heaven) and beloved below
(in this world), and so be accepted by everyone.”

The gemora continues there saying, “It
was said regarding Rabbi Yochanan ben Zackai, that nobody ever greeted him
first, even a gentile in the marketplace.” Rabbi Yochanan ben Zackai lived in
the time of the destruction of the First Temple, something brought about by
fanatic Jews who had no compunction with making war with the mighty Roman
legions. The Roman legions finally defeated all who opposed them and were about
to penetrate Jerusalem and destroy the Temple. Whoever opposed the Jewish fanatics
in their hopeless struggles against Rome were threatened. But one of them was a
relative of Rabbi Yochanan ben Zackai who knew that the rebellion against Rome
would not succeed. He helped Rabbi Yochanan ben Zackai to escape from Jerusalem
and go to the camp of the Roman general.

Rabbi Yochanan was brought to this
general and greeted him as Your Majesty. The general was shocked. He said that
for that he can be killed by the king as he is only a general, not a king. But
Rabbi Yochanan ben Zackai told him that it was obvious that he was about to
conquer Jerusalem, and that this power was only given by G‑d to the monarch of
the attacking country. Just then somebody came to the general and announced
that he had been selected to be the new king.

The new king then turned to Rabbi
Yochanan ben Zackai and told him that he was the first one to realize this, and
he must be a very holy man to know it, so what does he want the new king to
give him?

Rabbi Yochana ben Zackai realized that
the new king would never permit the Jews to maintain their hold on the Temple,
so he did not ask this. He asked rather several things he was sure the king
would agree to. One was that the king allow a city in Israel to be used by
rabbis to study the Torah, and the king agreed. He then asked for a doctor for
a holy man who fasted many days to prevent the destruction of Jerusalem, and it
was granted. From that moment on the Romans in general had a very high regard
for the pious rabbis although they slaughtered the rebels. Eventually, there
was a new Roman king had such great respect for the rabbis that he himself,
secretly, began to practice Judaism. He once gave the leader of the rabbis a
huge sum of money, explaining that he knew that the time would come when the
Romans would demand a lot of money from Jews, and he wanted them to have that
money, which actually came from him.

One of the greatest rabbis in the world
years ago when I was younger was Rabbi Yaacov Kaminetsky. He was a man of
understanding and wisdom, as well as piety and honesty. Near his house was a
covenant for Catholic women. These were older women dressed in their special
garments and their grounds were now surrounded by many blocks of deeply
Orthodox Jews mostly with beards and religious attire. Rabbi Kaminetsky, an old
rabbi, would regularly greet these ladies pleasantly.

It so happened that our city had a
powerful commissioner who hated Jews. Once a Jew came to him to get permission
to build a building. He knew that this commissioner would give him a hard time.
He was shocked when the commissioner greeted him warmly and quickly approved
his requests. He was so shocked that the commissioner sensed his surprise and
explained to him, that his close relative lived in that covenant, and that she
and her friends who lived there always received the warmest greeting from Rabbi
Yaacov Kaminetsky.

In the Second World War when the Germans
began slaughtering Jews, a gentile postman began hiding Jews. If the Germans
would realize this they would kill him. He explained that he had once gave a
Jewish customer a large sum of money by mistake. The Jew returned the money. When
the postman realized how honest the Jew was he resolved to hide as much Jews as
he could and so many survived the war.

But just as Rabbi Yochanan ben Zackai
turned even ferocious Roman soldiers into people who honored the rabbis, and
just as the postmaster saved many Jews from the Germans, so were there other
Jews who did not merit to turn Jews and gentiles into beloved friends, but
perhaps the opposite. It all depends how a Jew greets the other Jews and the
gentiles.

In recent times many Jews who are not
religious have entered Hollywood and turned it into a festival of disgusting
anti-Torah teachings. Thousands of people of all ages have been destroyed by
these very popular filth productions. When people notice that many of these
Hollywood filth producers are Jewish, they often hate Jews, who teach people to
do the complete opposite of what the Torah commands. The Torah is very clear
that people who promote sin and evil are enemies of G‑d and all Jews must
opposite them.

Rabbi Yaacov Kaminetsky once told me that
when we find some Jewish politician or similar personality who is spreading
anti-Torah anti-morality ideas, and there is a politician or similarity who
believes in morality but who hates Jews, we must back for and vote for the
anti-Semite. We have a G‑d and we have a Torah and anyone who spreads filth and
opposes G‑d and the Torah must be fought and destroyed.There is now a movement in America to put
any person who opposes anti-Torah propaganda either into jail or to fine him or
punish him in otherways. If they
succeed, what will happen to our community?Do we all have to flee the country and let America turn into the pure
filth of the Hollywood terrorists?

Saturday, May 12, 2018

Translation: We hereby arouse opposition to the N.Y.C. Gay Rights Bill, that it is a holy obligation upon everyone to do whatever they can do to influence the members of the City Council to vote against the above bill. And to the members of the City Council we turn to them and request them to be in the hall when the vote takes place and to vote against the bill as we mentioned.

Furthermore, we request from all who hear our request to come to City Hall every day of the hearings of the committee of the council beginning from the fourth day of Adar and to fill the hall and to sanctify the Name of HaShem by showing publicly to all people that the people of HaShem hates all that which is abhorred by HaShem. And the month that was changed from sadness to joy shall be changed also for us to joy.

Sunday, April 29, 2018

David Eidensohn<eidensohnd@gmail.com>

7:37 PM (11 minutes ago)

Reply

to Yehoishophot

Aryeh Leib Yoffe writes, "Show me one source that forbids giving a get to a woman who went to civil court. Just one!"

The gemora in Gittin 88b says that rabbis outside of Israel don't have a proper Semicha and if a gentile forces a Jew to give a GET we have a gemora Rabbi Tarfone said any place you find gentiles forcing [a GET] even if they rule as the Torah rules you are not allowed to use them, as it is said, "Before them and not before gentiles." This means if you have a court of non-religious Jews who force a husband against his will to give his wife a GET it is a sin, a LAV, to use that court to force the wife to give a GET. This is clearly stated in Choshen Mishpot 26A: It is forbidden to adjudicate before gentile judges, in their courts, even if the court adjudicates exactly as the Torah commands. And even if both parties agree to go to the gentiles it is forbidden. And whoever comes to be judged by them is a wicked person ROSHO. And is one who curses and insults and raised his hand against the Torah of Moshe," The Ramo continues with hideous curses of that person. We have also in Shulchan Aruch Even Hoezer 77:2 that all commentators, the Vilna Gaon at great length and Beis Shmuel, etc. that it is forbidden to pressure a husband to give a GET in way way. The Vilna Gaon says that based upon the gemora in Kesubose 63b bottom Tosfose at length, it is forbidden to force a GET period. The Vilna Gaon says that today all agree about this, although there were once some who permitted forcing a GET such as Rambam and Rashbam. However, the Tosfose in Kesubose is proof that it is forbidden to force a husband to give a GET and all five authorities on the page there agree that it is forbidden.Thus a woman who forces her husband to give her a GET in any way, and surely in a secular court, has sinned and her GET is invalid, and is probably a problem for her children who may be mamzerim. See Rashbo volume VII:414 "We never force a GET to divorce his wife. If he wishes, he divorces her. And if he doesn't wish to do so, he doesn't divorce her." This pesak is accepted by all commentators in the above Shulchan Aruch Even Hoezer 77:2. This surely includes a woman who forces her husband in a gentile or secular court even with irreligious Jews or those not familiar properly with laws of Gittin who are not a proper and accepted Beth Din. I heard from my rebbe Reb Yosef Shalom Elyashev zt"l that any Beth Din that permits a woman to escape her husband with an invalid GET has lost its reputation as a proper Beth Din and he and other major rabbonim in Israel in the sefer Mishpotei Yisroel say that such a woman who received an invalid or forced GET must go to a different Beth Din, not the invalid Beth Din, and receive a proper GET that is not forced. There are rare cases, mentioned in Shulchan Aruch Even Hoezer, when a husband acts in such a terrible manner that Beth Din may decide to force him to give a GET. But that means a proper Beth Din of Jews, not a secular court. And it is rare.

Thursday, March 22, 2018

I see that Rabbi Betsalal Friedlander has established a group with a large membership to study tanach. This reminds me of a story about the gaon rav Yaacov Kaminetsky. Once a person was showing off his ability to know tanach, and he was proud of himself and his knowledge. Reb Yaacov who had learned thoroughly Tanach dozens of times, turned to him and began testing his knowledge of Tanach and that was the end of that session with the "expert."

In truth, I find that the study of Tanach is a very sensitive thing. One thing that bothers me very much is when passages in the Torah Neviim and Kesuvim offer strong criticism on great biblical people.

Let us discuss the biblical teaching in Melochim (kings) about Shlomo HaMelech, about Solomon the son of King David. It begins "and HaShem gave wisdom to Shlomo as He spoke to him about it." In chapter 8 passage 22 we find the great prayer made by Solomon in public to HaShem. But a few passages later we are given the statement of HaShem that only by true piety can Solomon merit the greatness of ruling the Jewish people. There is a threat not to be unfaithful to HaShem, which later on was to happen.

We find in chapter ten passage 11: "And the King Shlomo loved many strange women and the daughter of Pharoah...from the nations that HaShem forbade the Jews from marrying....with them Solomon was close with them in love." The passage then tells how Solomon was influenced by these foreign women to sin against HaShem. It seems that these strange women turned Shlomo against HaShem. "and Shlomo did what was evil in the eyes of HaShem."

And yet, Solomon produced great literature and built the Beis HaMikdosh. But he also did very serious sins. Yes, the study of Tanach is a mixed bag, unfortunately.

Actually, the mistakes of great Jews is a central theme of the Tanach. But it is painful to have to read about the terrible sins some great Jews committed.

Those of us like myself who have intense pain from parts of Tanach have a problem. The Torah tells is like it is. But that story is the whole story, leaving out nothing of the good and the bad. The story of the Jewish people and their great leaders is a very sensitive project.

One idea is that yes many great leaders did some sins, but if we as a Jewish people lasted so many centuries, perhaps these people who sometimes sinned had a lot to do with it.

I don't know a good explanation for the terrible sins of the greatest Jews. I could mention some teachings from various sources, but let us leave it for now, and accept that we as a nation survive all of the sins committed by people who shock us when they do these sins. And that requires a separate study and who knows if today anyone has the proper approach. Maybe the Malbim has succeeded there. Or maybe we can just keep things simple. The great Jews had tests from the Satan and sometimes they failed. And maybe they did penitence.

We know that Aharon was punished for making the Golden Calf, and he was as pious as his brother Moshe. But Moshe went to heaven regularly to talk to HaShem, and Aharon was blamed for the terrible sin of Jews worshipping the Golden Calf. Because Aharon was great, his sins are clearly spelled out and described. But who could have done better than the greatest saints?

Monday, March 19, 2018

Insights
into Orthodox Jewish Torah Religion

By
Rabbi David Eidensohn

Today
there are people who no longer believe in traditional values even spiritual and
religious ones. Some of these people are happy with denying their earlier
beliefs in religion, and some of them are not happy without a spirituality.
This is written for those people of various customs and former beliefs who feel
they need a true spirituality. I am an ultra-Orthodox Jewish rabbi and I feel
that these people who are looking for a true belief and religion can
investigate Orthodox Judaism. I am not going so far
as to call these people to my religion because I know that Orthodox Judaism is
a strict code and not everybody can just jump in and be happy. But I rather ask
these people seeking spirituality to just hear what I have to say and what
appeals to them, so be it, and what they don't accept, that is fine as well, as
I appreciate their giving me the time and effort.

Today
Orthodox Judaism is growing faster than other religions, especially as many
major religions especially the Jewish non-Orthodox type, are declining even
close to disappearing. I have ten children, and all of the children are exactly
as I am in their religious beliefs. The children are strongly trained in
schools where many other children are successfully assimilating the teachings
of the Orthodox Jewish ages. And I am happy to say that my children are having
children, usually more than I have. And they are nearly all faithful to what I
trained them to believe.

I live in a community filled with synagogues and people who
basically all believe in what I do, and our great rabbis encourage everyone to
maintain the teachings of the Torah that go back thousands of years, without
change. Our belief is what Moses received from G-d and even today people are
not anxious to change it.

Anyone interesting in learning about Orthodox Jewry can contact
me at eidensohnd@gmail.com or they can call me at 845-578-1917.Shalom,
David Eidensohn

Saturday, March 17, 2018

I am a Talmudist who
studied under the greatest rabbis of the past generation, Rabbi Aharon Kotler,
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashev, Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner
and others. On the other hand, I live in a world which is in flux, and various
forces are at work to bring new elements to the control of our world. I have a
friend who has spent years studying these various forces, and he is very
pessimistic.

Therefore, on the one hand, I feel confident presenting my books
and blog materials to the public, rooted in my ancient reliance on Talmudists
and Torah. On the other hand, there are huge numbers of people who are restless
and seeking and who have strong opposition to what is going on in the world
today. Therefore, I have to decide whether to just talk Talmudic, or to talk
directly to those who demand changes in the world, or else, and they are
growing stronger every day. Do I have a right to talk about them when I surely
am no expert in their grievances and ambitions?

My friend actually
gave me an idea that might just work for me. He told me that in the many masses
of people who are upset with our systems for various reasons, there are among
them two basic responses. One holds that our masses do not have reliable
attachment to spirituality and are therefore hungry for somebody to help them
with it. Others have other grievances and are looking for some hideous
solutions to the problems.

One person who succeeded in reaching these people big time began
by talking Talmud to them and succeeding with prominent leaders! On the one
hand they are seeking something new, but on the other hand, they know that
spirituality is crucial for them and for the world, and they have no clue how
to achieve it, after they have basically dropped faith in previous religions.
But when presented with Jewish Talmudic teachings they often feel that this is
closer to the truth and they want to hear more!

As my friends tells me frequently, the world is splitting into
various groups who are angry at much of what is happening socially and
spiritually. But these angry people have questions and no answers. They
desperately want to re-connect to beliefs that can point to a spirituality that
has a history and a future. There is no solution for these people other than to
learn a bit of Jewish Orthodox beliefs. Here is why.

The Jewish Orthodox community is growing by leaps and bounds
while other religions are disappearing. We have a solid source going back
thousands of years of a G-d who is loving and caring and who wants to listen to
the feelings of humans. We have a bible written by Moses with the help of G-d
and we have thousands of years of great rabbis teaching and explaining so that
people realize that they are involved with truth.

If anybody wants to talk to me about these matters, write to me
at eidensohnd@gmail.com or ask for my phone number, which could take a bit
longer.

Thursday, March 15, 2018

This
morning something happened that made me happy that I believe in HaShem! That
may not sound so special, especially for all Torah Jews who worship HaShem
daily. But listen to my story and then let me see if you agree with me, at
least, partially.

The story begins some years ago,
and I will cut to the quick, to get to what happened today, Thursday March 15,
2018. I had such a strong sensation and excitement about HaShem taking care of
us even people who have great problems, that I spent hours contacting people
about the great miracle, and it was only in late afternoon that I got working
on other things.

Really, the story is about my
wife, who realized that somebody was suffering, and decided to do something
about it, even though nobody seemed available to do something about it. But my
wife powered on. She said, "I live in Monsey. It is a city of kindness. If
your child needs some attention, you snap your fingers and ten very busy
mothers are heavily involved in kindness. There is no such thing in Monsey as a
mother or a child or any individual just rotting away. There are people
everywhere who see what they see, know what they know, and get to work along
with a lot of other people. At any rate, that was a fact as I lived in Monsey
many decades, and my wife knew it was a fact, and now, she stood alone while
somebody is in a terrible situation.

After I had digested my wife's
pain, I went into another room, opened up a Tanach with the entire Torah in it
with no commentaries, and flipped open a passage in Yeshayeh 29, where Hashem
explodes with anger and showering destruction. It was not a solution for my
problem, but I took it as a sign that I keep thinking. And as I did, I realized
that the solution is right in my pocket. I got to work, made some phone calls to
the right people with the right suggestions, and pretty soon I had a small
group of men and women who were going to devote themselves to giving broken
people strength, and organizing people to help others.

Now let me go to phase two if we
call it that. Phase two I am in shull, a baby is being prepared for a bris
mila. The baby is shrieking. A friend tells me, "If a baby screams, that
is a sign that HaShem will shower us with mercy." Okay, I was ready for
that if ever I was. I went over to the Rov, told him basically that I had a
problem, and I wanted Eliyohu HaNovi, who comes to everyone's bris, to some
into the shull and participate to establish an atmosphere of miracle.

The Rov was happy to cooperate
with my request, and I repeated my request to the Mohel and some others. Then,
I went home after the bris, and I felt a great pain that my relative was
suffering so much. My wife was upset. I was upset. Who wasn't upset? Surely our
niece was upset.

I called up a friend and we had a
long talk. He is a friend that I talk to regularly. He is very smart and we get
along well. While we are talking, my wife barges into my room and shrieks,
"She succeeded in going to court without a lawyer, with no money, and
tangled with somebody loaded with money from him and his family, a person
determined to tear the children away from our niece and afterwards to make sure
that she has desperate poverty that could destroy her." And now this woman
has succeeded getting a court of law to give to her her five children? Did they
go further than that? How? Somebody suggested that the judge ruled that her
ex-husband with his parental alienation antagonized the judge who realized that
the former husband is such a wretch that the children will really suffer living
with him, which they are never allowed to do, as he likes privacy.

I will stop here, after I made a
lot of phone calls and talked up our group. Yes, yesterday I spoke to about six
people about making a group to help people with kindness. And today the heavens
opened and what a miracle it was.

If anyone has an article they
want to write for my group, please do so. I can be reached at
eidensohnd@gmail.com and by phone at 845-578-1917. Let's turn the world into
Monsey, into Chesed.

I have
long been busy studying marriage problems. One day I will discuss my findings.
But the first step is to be kind, and to love people who are hurt, who need
some love. And when the Satan comes over with some ideas on how to hate people,
just tell him that you can hate people, but only people who are cruel to good
people.

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NEW BLOG TO STOP DRAFT OF WOMEN IN US

There is a grave danger of women being drafted in US for the following reasons:

1) As of Jan 2016 the Obama administration and military generals have decreed that there is no longer a difference in combat between men and women

2) The Supreme Court ruled previously that if women are able to enter combat they can be drafted.

3) For an Orthodox woman to be drafted is a cardinal sin, one that may bring about terrible things such as suicide. The depression of a decent girl being among men who do what they want will surely result in suicides.

4) In Harvard University the President, a woman, recently publicly bemoaned a study that showed that 71 percent of Harvard women suffered from s abuse, and that twenty percent of the abusers were faculty members of Harvard! The military is much worse than Harvard, because men in combat are ferocious in their passions.

4) WE HAVE MADE A NEW BLOG womenmakewar.blogspot.com . Please go there and see the various sources for the above, and enter any questions or comments that you may have.

IF YOU WANT TO HELP! CALL ME AT 845-578-1917 or write to me at eidensohnd@gmail.com .

THANK YOU

Rabbi Dovid E. Eidensohn

Rabbi Dovid Eidensohn has written Hebrew and English halacha and hashkofo books, which are graced with haskomose from Gedolei HaDor of the past and present generations. Rabbi Moshe Feinstein zt"l wrote, "The Rav HaGaon is known to me for many years, as one who delves deeply to clarify complex halochose." Rabbi Eidensohn has 250 videos on youtube.com/mons5555. He is now involved with broken families and divorces, especially the halachic issues. HaGaon Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashev zt"l conveyed upon Rabbi Eidensohn the right to be a Rosh Beth Din in Gittin and to use Rav Elyashev'a name as endorser.

Jewish Outreach Congregation Program

The Jewish Outreach Congregation is a "synagogue without walls" for searching people. Rabbi Dovid Eidensohn has published books in Hebrew and English on family, marriage and other important topics. He is heavily involved in media as he was trained by Geonim Reb Moshe Feinstein, Reb Yaacov Kaminetsky, and Rav Shimon Schwab, all of the zt"l.

Rabbi Eidensohn was a close Talmid of the Gedolim of the past generation and lihvadil this generation. He struggles to maintain the high standards he received from them, but is convinced that there are great problems today in halacha, marriage and other critical issues. He has for many years spoken out and fought for old values.

Today, the hope is to expand the efforts in writing and media to get individuals who share Rabbi Eidensohn's ideas. We want to make a Torah that gives a person true success in Torah, a fine parnoso, Shalom Bayis and success with children, and general abilities to deal with the physical and intellectual problems of the world.